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One Bowl Vanilla Cupcakes for Two

Did you have a nice weekend? We did. It was a mix of fun, strange and just plain laughable. Saturday was spent packing boxes in pajamas for our move in three weeks… and later, Mark rescuing me from THIS:

This was the actual size of the terrifying, deathly creature.

To recover from this traumatizing event, Sunday was a nice day at the beach, splashing around in the freezing cold Pacific and eating strawberries in the sand. Then, Mark dumped half a bucket of white paint on our carpet, my desk chair and my clothes (Way to go, honey). But I just couldn’t forget about that spider and its satisfying but untimely death…

So, for his bravery, I made my darling hero a cupcake. His very own.

And, of course, one for me too. You know, for surviving through the whole thing without collapsing in fear onto the floor.

This recipe from Jessica at How Sweet It Is grabbed my attention a while ago, and I was saving it for a special occasion. That is, one where I was only craving one cupcake and not a dozen, and actually wanted to share. Good for my husband, that moment finally arrived!

With much smaller measurements of your standard cupcake ingredients (flour, sugar, butter, egg, etc.) and 15 minutes, your cupcake cravings can be completely quenched! These little guys were perfectly fluffy, sweet, and full of delicious vanilla flavor. Oh, and also GONE in under a minute. We don’t waste time in this household.

These “his and hers” cakes were a sweet celebration for one of life’s little victories, and I highly recommend them to satisfy a quick craving or toast to a two-person occasion of your own.

Ingredients:

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin pan with 2 liners and spray with nonstick cooking spray.

In a bowl, add egg white and sugar and whisk until combined. Add in vanilla and melted butter and stir until mixed. Add flour, baking powder and salt and stir until smooth. Stir in milk. Divide batter equally between the 2 cupcake liners.

Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes, or until cake is set. Let cool completely, then frost as desired. I used vanilla frosting mixed with blue and pink food coloring, and piped it on with a Wilton 1M tip.

Comments

Hi Georgia! Wa…. so beautiful…. the blue one is matching your blog background! I love your artistic talent and the colors of your choice are really nice. I love how you took the pictures of kitchen gadgets etc, too. I start to think it’s fun to see those extra pictures because they make it more fun and tasteful in your blog.

LOVE IT – his and hers cupcakes. I am an absolute sucker for making cupcakes and there is not one week that goes by without me making a batch and then having to give half of them away (which is also nice – don’t get me wrong) but to be able to make just 2 – genius I tell you genius!I have just printed your recipe and will be making the duo at the earliest opportunity – thanks!Hmm, about the spider – I am an arachnophobic so I fully sympathise with you.:-) Mandy

Awwwhhh!!! How incredibly sweet!! I definitely need to try this… though I don’t know if I would actually share the other one with Chris. Ok, maybe if he saved me from a spider…or a snake…but other than that.. they are all mine!!

Ingenious! I love this idea. There are so many times I just want a little bit of something sweet, but don’t want to battle my will power against a whole batch of sweets. Definitely will be trying this soon!

Lovely, Georgia! And perfect for “just the two of us” households like mine. I’m so excited for your move to Texas. Once you’re settled, we should meet up for lunch in Austin one Sat. Maybe we can get Monet to join us as well!

I think I would need a lot more than a day at the beach to recover from that trauma. And you are super sweet to make him those cupcakes. Thanks for visiting my site! Yours looks DELICIOUS too and I look forward to seeing more.

OMG..you should have put a disclaimer that you had a spider picture up! OMG..I am sooooo scared of spiders..ewww ewww ewww!Love the cupcakes. But thses would be “Cupcakes for one”, because I would eat them both!!!

I loved this post! It made me laugh and I just have the perfect recipe for my cupcake cravings. I don’t love cupcake but sometimes I just crave a good one. This really is perfect for me. One for me and one for hubby

Beautiful cupcakes! And what a great idea to just make 2–whenever I make a ‘full size’ dessert for me and my husband, we can never seem to finish it before it goes bad. =(And that spider . . . *shivering* Wow. Your husband gets major points for dealing with that hideous creature.

Thank you SOOOOOO much for posting this!!! With my hubby deployed I struggle with cooking for one person. The dogs just aren’t big on my leftovers unless it includes meat. LOL. This recipe is perfect to satisfy that mean sweet tooth that pops up every now and again.

In the 6 days since you have posted this recipe, I have made these 3 times . . . First made it (for me) exactly as you posted it — DELISH! Next played around with the recipe to make chocolate cupcakes (I added 2 TBL cocoa, 2 TBL mini choco chips, increased milk to 2 TBL, and decreased vanilla to 1/2 tsp). Shared these with a friend who had stopped by. Last night I made to your recipe, but added 1 TBL mini choco chips. (Also shared ;-)

My microwave is also a convection oven, so I am not heating up my big oven for these . . .

I love this! It’s just the hubby and me and sometimes we want a sweet homemade treat, but making 12 muffins or really a dozen of anything is just a bad idea and waste of ingredients. I’ll have to bookmark this for when the hubby braves a giant spider or hangs a picture, all that manly stuff ;)

Wow.Like…wow. Why is it that Americans can make food taste so amazing?!! (I’m Australian, and our muffins, cupcakes, etc do not even come close to these).I just made these, and my husband and I finished devouring them…they are so SCRUMPTIOUS! So thick, dense, sweet and…I could go on.Thank you so much for posting this recipe, so delicious…lucky I doubled the recipe…so I can have another one tomorrow…if I can wait that long!!

With Valentine’s day coming up this Thursday, this seems perfect. We both love sweets, but usually can’t eat a lot of them at one sitting or risk feeling ill. This looks like a solution! Thanks for sharing!

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